Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
They refuse
Bible References
They hold
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Bring everything to the test; cling to what is good;
2 Thessalonians 2:9
For at the Coming of the Lord there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude--
Revelation 2:25
only hold fast to what you have received, until I come.
They refuse
John 5:40
And, though it is those very Scriptures that bear testimony to me, you refuse to come to me to have life.
Hebrews 12:25
Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from Heaven.